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Book SynopsisReaders will find in The Sleeping Gypsy all of the qualities that distinguished Garrett’s earlier collection of verse—the pointed, incisive writing, the abhorrence of “pretty” poetic words, the harsh impact of language that is, at the same time, strangel
Table of Contents
- I. The Music Of This World
- The Sleeping Gypsy
- Distances, Differences
- Buzzard
- Aubade
- Giant Killer
- The Children: an Abstraction
- A Form of Joy
- Underworld
- Advice to an Aesthetician
- The Pure Brutalities of Contrast
- Still Life
- Pastoral
- Old Saws No. 1
- Old Saws No. 2
- Old Saws No. 3
- Three Studies of Æsop
- Saints
- Speaking of Minor Revelations
- Be Uncorrupted All
- After Bad Dreams
- II. Songs
- III. Snapshots
- The Lion Tamer
- Tugboat
- Tyger
- Fire Engine
- A Parable of Four Sowers
- Tightrope Walker
- Veterans
- Riddle Man
- The Lucky
- Romantic
- Narcissist
- Sensualist
- A Friend in Gray Flannel
- Three from the Academy
- Sir Guy of Gysbane
- Caedmon
- Swift
- Tiresias
- Martha Graham: Appalachian Spring
- Classic Generalissimo
- IV. Short Stories
- Summer Storm
- The Magi
- The Cage
- The Grapes
- Deep Sea Fishing
- Eve
- Bayonet Drill
- Episode in a Suburban Garden
- Three Dancers
- Bathing Beauty
- Letter from a Light Drinker
- Snowstorm
